“Tulsa is the best kept secret in the heartland”. What news on this project? Will the credit crunch affect the time scale? Is bronze the best material for a work that size? 60 feet taller than the Statue Of Liberty; Good luck Shan Gray. http://www.theamerican.com/home/index.cfm?&Flash=1 http://theamerican.com/9/resources/TulsaWorld_6.pdf http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=90293120
Archive | sculptor
Sculpture Garden Project
Diana, Paolo Persico and Tommaso Solari 1770 -1780 Statue of Apennine, Giambologna 1569- 1581 Ian, here are a couple of ideas for a garden project, or back-yard project depending on which side of the pond you live! Pictures thanks to Taschen.
Contemporary Sculpture
On the subject of contemporary art, I have seen this work and liked it. The foundry told me it was extremely difficult to do. The outside of the shell is highly burnished; you can see your face in it! This clearly illustrates just how versitile bronze can be. Some of those figures on Philip Jackson’s […]
Terra Cotta
Early work by Who? Rodin! I am keen to find a good example of two images of a terra cotta bust of similar ilk as these two, in an effort to compare media. The first is ‘Flora’ by C-Belleuse , two different versions. Marble The second is Mlle Vuillier by Aime-Jules Dalou , same work […]
Please buy a flower, sculpture oriental?
ed The Flower Seller – Jeune Fille de Bou Saada by Louis–Ernst Barrias 1841-1904 The first one is in Ivory, bronze, wood and mother of pearl and is small at 33cm x 27cm. The second is in bronze size unknown and the last in I guessed terra cotta, but if it is plaster as Ian […]
Michelangelo
From The Royal Collection, Leda and the Swan (Leonardo) , Drawing by Raphael Lucretia by Raphael And these two by Raphael of his mistress Passable female forms? The almost ‘God Like’ adoration given to Michelangelo is in my view misplaced and many sculptors out stripped his skill. I acknowledge only that he was a great […]
Felix-Maurice Charpentier, ‘Flours Que Amavo’
There are a few sculptors who go the extra mile. My list is not complete yet, but Bernini and Clodion are good examples of what I mean and equate in Music to Bach and Mozart. Here is a new addition to my list Felix-Maurice Charpentier 1858-1928. In 1912 (a very good year for lots of […]
Reid Dick in Regents Park
Michael Copeland sent me this picture of another work by Reid Dick RA which I was not aware of. Clearly a delightful childhood moment captured (even if no one believes you about the frog)! Note how he has caught the head; children hold their heads differently to the rest of us. Dated 1931.
George Washington on American soil in England
Charles I in Trafalgar Square, London The best known sculptures in Trafalgar Square are of course Nelson’s, the lions and the fourth plinth (!), but we also have a few others including some from North America. One from a rebellious colony Virginia, gave us a chap with an English name and some American soil for […]
Practical Sculpture
Ian Cox reminded me how important it is to see these things in the round so I have tried with this one. E J Clack’s drinking fountain in Green Park, London, more here Constance Fund But like this one in Poundbury Dorset, drinking (if there is any water) is not recommended. Just in passing it […]
